I was managing to cut the list of reasons to keep Windows down, and had got it down to:
a) the occasional game b) my digital camera c) the occasional app which needs Windows (some obscure subtitle converter or something like that). d) Many Faces of Go (which is a lot better than GnuGo - yeah I know it's expensive but I like it).
Then unfortunately I bought a DVD burner and it's not supported by FreeBSD, so that's pushed me up to 5 reasons.
In fact I have one computer running Linux because my printer is supported by Linux but not FreeBSD. I suppose I could nix (ha ha) the Linux and put the printer on the Windows machine, but that seems so wrong.
You may have guessed that I'm a rabid FreeBSD fanboy. Oh well, at least I don't try to ram it down anyone's throat.
The Tom Baker version of Shada, i.e. the original and proper version of Shada was never completed due to a strike at the BBC. Way back whenever the BBC did the post-production on the unfinished scenes and got Tom Baker to do some new segments where he stands in a Dr. Who museum and narrates what happens in some scene that is missing.
They then released this version of Shada as a boxed set with the script.
I admire any new Who stuff they do, or rather I admire the effort, but nothing will ever be able to match the on-screen chemistry between Tom Baker and the sexy sexy super-sexy Ms. Ward.
In particular there is a scene at Prof. Chronotis' where the Prof., Romana and the Doctor are talking about Galifreyan stuff, and it just rocks. I think some of it is ad-libbed.
". Why not watch movies the way they were originall made?"
Well you can't, because 16:9 is NOT the same aspect ratio as a film screen. You still get black bars- just not as big.
Shamelessly stolen from some website high on a list returned from Google:
* 1.33:1 A standard television set; roughly equivalent to 4:3.
* 1.37:1 Referred to as the academy aspect ratio. The standard for films shot before the mid-1950s.
* 1.66:1 A bit wider than a standard TV, but not by much.
* 1.78:1 The dimensions of a widescreen television set; roughly equivalent to 16:9.
* 1.85:1 Popular aspect ratio for many movies. * 2.35:1 Another popular aspect ratio for movies.
Belive me, I thought I had discovered heaven when I first found Tiny Firewall- wow! It's free! It's for Windows! Now I have a firewall to recommend to all my Windows-using friends!
" For the rest of us, who actually lived in the 1980's, we thought DL was insanely cool."
I did live in the 80s, but not the parallel universe version you obviously did where Dragon's Lair was cool.
In the universe I've been living in, Dragon's Lair was an expensive to play, hardly any interactivity game where it was too easy to die.
And I didn't say that cel-shaded games were better- I said they were more interesting to me.
Also I take exception to your using the word anime in conjuction with Western animation. Don Bluth's work is cartoons, not anime.
graspee
Laserdiscs were a losing branch of videogames
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Dragon's Lair on X-box
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Dragon's Lair sucked. It was at the forefront of the "Let's turn videogames into total eye-candy with extremely limited interactivity" movement, which thankfully didn't take off.
I like Don Bluth's work on the big screen, but the way to get cinematic graphics in a game is not by just pre-rendering/drawing them like all those laserdisc games did, then allowing a branching path through the story, but by improving 3d computer graphics to the point where they look as good as real-life/traditional animation.
More interesting to me is the (fairly) recent innovation where traditional 3d graphics are used, but they are shaded and textured to look like cartoons/anime, e.g. Fear Effect, various Simpsons and Disney games.
"If you have a cold and/or mild/moderate sinusitis, deal with it..."
Fuck me, Americans take antibiotics for a cold ? You learn something every day, I guess... What is the world coming to ? It's like the way patients have gas before the injections at a dentist- I can't understand it. What a wuss culture !
"Eventually his personal problems caught up with him. Struggling with chronic alcoholism, Katz was estranged from his family and often hung out with strippers. He turned into a recluse, often avoiding his posh Mequon condominium and staying in cheap hotels instead."
You couldn't pay the trolls on/. to come up with a better paragraph than this.
Dude, like I said, they're "slightly more obscure".
The pattern of obscurity would probably go something like:
a) shown on cartoon network or similar- tie-in products available in the west. b) available on dvd in the west, but only in dubbed form c) available to buy on ebay etc because there are HK (Hong Kong) DVDs of it- but with bad subs. d) only available on video or dvd in japan- has a small following, very obscure material, no fansubber likes it so it has never been subbed for the English-speaking market.
Obviously there are lots of shades of obscurity between these example levels...
Yawn- yet another article that praises "worthy" anime like Mononoke Hime and Spirited Away, and ignores the massive diversity of popular TV series and OAVs.
Here is a mini-guide to some slightly more obscure anime to watch for fans of certain series that are well known:
If you like Ed in Cowboy Bebop then you will like the title character in NieA Under 7.
If you like Tenshi, you will probably like Love Hina and Happy Lesson TV.
If you like Oh My Goddess, you will probably like Chobits.
If you like anime with lots of fighting action then take a look at Beserk, Noir, Scryed, Hellsing.
Other good romantic comedy animes are: Onegai Teacher, I my me Strawberry Eggs, Ai Yori Aoshi, Hanaukyo Maids.
There are many more than this. Most of the ones I mentioned came out in the last year or two.
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I was managing to cut the list of reasons to keep Windows down, and had got it down to:
a) the occasional game
b) my digital camera
c) the occasional app which needs Windows (some obscure subtitle converter or something like that).
d) Many Faces of Go (which is a lot better than GnuGo - yeah I know it's expensive but I like it).
Then unfortunately I bought a DVD burner and it's not supported by FreeBSD, so that's pushed me up to 5 reasons.
In fact I have one computer running Linux because my printer is supported by Linux but not FreeBSD. I suppose I could nix (ha ha) the Linux and put the printer on the Windows machine, but that seems so wrong.
You may have guessed that I'm a rabid FreeBSD fanboy. Oh well, at least I don't try to ram it down anyone's throat.
USE FREEBSD NOW! IT'S SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN LINUX!
Oops.
graspee
I've figured out what's driving processor speeds up and why it doesn't affect me as much.
Many people only have one PC and they're running everything on it: p2p client, email, web-browsing, games, CD recording...
I for example, with my vast collection of semi-ancient machines have a PC dedicated to p2p, another for playing games, another for recording CDs etc.
graspee
It did go into production, they just didn't finish filming it.
graspee
The Tom Baker version of Shada, i.e. the original and proper version of Shada was never completed due to a strike at the BBC. Way back whenever the BBC did the post-production on the unfinished scenes and got Tom Baker to do some new segments where he stands in a Dr. Who museum and narrates what happens in some scene that is missing.
They then released this version of Shada as a boxed set with the script.
I admire any new Who stuff they do, or rather I admire the effort, but nothing will ever be able to match the on-screen chemistry between Tom Baker and the sexy sexy super-sexy Ms. Ward.
In particular there is a scene at Prof. Chronotis' where the Prof., Romana and the Doctor are talking about Galifreyan stuff, and it just rocks. I think some of it is ad-libbed.
graspee
So does that mean that for the classic joke I have to say:
All your datum are belong to us
?
graspee
"...it means that when all the LOTR movies are done, we can REALLY piss off Jack Valenti by ripping them on to just one disk?"
... erm ... seen ... a rip of LOTR extended edition that's 1.35G. Multiply that by 3 and it still fits on a DVD-R. (Or +R if that's your poison).
You could do that now (apart from that the other 2 films aren't released).
I've
graspee
". Why not watch movies the way they were originall made?"
Well you can't, because 16:9 is NOT the same aspect ratio as a film screen. You still get black bars- just not as big.
Shamelessly stolen from some website high on a list returned from Google:
* 1.33:1 A standard television set; roughly equivalent to 4:3.
* 1.37:1 Referred to as the academy aspect ratio. The standard for films shot before the mid-1950s.
* 1.66:1 A bit wider than a standard TV, but not by much.
* 1.78:1 The dimensions of a widescreen television set; roughly equivalent to 16:9.
* 1.85:1 Popular aspect ratio for many movies.
* 2.35:1 Another popular aspect ratio for movies.
graspee
That's Natalie Pr0tman to you...
graspee
Wow! I just realized that Mozilla hasn't crashed on me for at least 6 months!
I know it's off-topic, but it just goes to show you how much Mozilla rules these days.
graspee
" Yet another cool feature of mozilla mail/news is the ability to turn off remote image loading."
Not to be offensive, but rather to be informative- Evolution has this too.
Evolution has many sucky features too, but it at least has this.
(It's my day for slagging off software, it seems...)
graspee
I can heartily not recommend Tiny Firewall.
It falls over.
It falls over often.
Guess what happens when it falls over ?
Every packet comes sweeping through.
Belive me, I thought I had discovered heaven when I first found Tiny Firewall- wow! It's free! It's for Windows! Now I have a firewall to recommend to all my Windows-using friends!
But I speak from bitter experience. It sucks.
graspee
"any reasonable judge would throw it out."
What? They have reasonable judges now ?
graspee
You might want to steer clear of Japanese phrases ("Ah-soooo") when stereotyping Koreans.
Hell, you might want to steer clear of stereotyping people altogether.
Well, it was just a thought.
graspee
I think these "SK is dead' trolls are actually keeping Steven King alive!
graspee
"I'm turning to the Slashdot community to see if anyone has either practical experience or informative insight into a problem like this?"
Heh. You're right, I can't believe it either.
graspee
"How, then, do you explain FPS titles"
Play a FPS. Use the mouse to look around, fire when you want to, jump and duck when you want to, completely move freely in all directions.
If you think FPS have limited interactivity like Dragon's Lair then maybe you are not familiar with how badly Dragon's Lair sucked.
graspee
" For the rest of us, who actually lived in the 1980's, we thought DL was insanely cool."
I did live in the 80s, but not the parallel universe version you obviously did where Dragon's Lair was cool.
In the universe I've been living in, Dragon's Lair was an expensive to play, hardly any interactivity game where it was too easy to die.
And I didn't say that cel-shaded games were better- I said they were more interesting to me.
Also I take exception to your using the word anime in conjuction with Western animation. Don Bluth's work is cartoons, not anime.
graspee
Dragon's Lair sucked. It was at the forefront of the "Let's turn videogames into total eye-candy with extremely limited interactivity" movement, which thankfully didn't take off.
I like Don Bluth's work on the big screen, but the way to get cinematic graphics in a game is not by just pre-rendering/drawing them like all those laserdisc games did, then allowing a branching path through the story, but by improving 3d computer graphics to the point where they look as good as real-life/traditional animation.
More interesting to me is the (fairly) recent innovation where traditional 3d graphics are used, but they are shaded and textured to look like cartoons/anime, e.g. Fear Effect, various Simpsons and Disney games.
graspee
"If you have a cold and/or mild/moderate sinusitis, deal with it..."
Fuck me, Americans take antibiotics for a cold ? You learn something every day, I guess... What is the world coming to ? It's like the way patients have gas before the injections at a dentist- I can't understand it. What a wuss culture !
graspee
"Same thing happens with TV. I'm so fast, I can watch "24" in 34 minutes."
So can anyone, if you cut the commercials out.
graspee
" My fiancee nixed Lord of the Rings in just under a week."
Big fucking deal- I read it in a day. If you read every day then you get fast. Fact.
graspee
"I'd recommend Bored of The Rings to really slow readers"
I'd recommend "Doon" too, not only to really slow readers, but to all fans of Dune.
To really slow readers: I recommend YOU READ FASTER!
graspee
From the article:
/. to come up with a better paragraph than this.
"Eventually his personal problems caught up with him. Struggling with chronic alcoholism, Katz was estranged from his family and often hung out with strippers. He turned into a recluse, often avoiding his posh Mequon condominium and staying in cheap hotels instead."
You couldn't pay the trolls on
graspee
" These series aren't very obscure."
Dude, like I said, they're "slightly more obscure".
The pattern of obscurity would probably go something like:
a) shown on cartoon network or similar- tie-in products available in the west.
b) available on dvd in the west, but only in dubbed form
c) available to buy on ebay etc because there are HK (Hong Kong) DVDs of it- but with bad subs.
d) only available on video or dvd in japan- has a small following, very obscure material, no fansubber likes it so it has never been subbed for the English-speaking market.
Obviously there are lots of shades of obscurity between these example levels...
graspee
Yawn- yet another article that praises "worthy" anime like Mononoke Hime and Spirited Away, and ignores the massive diversity of popular TV series and OAVs.
Here is a mini-guide to some slightly more obscure anime to watch for fans of certain series that are well known:
If you like Ed in Cowboy Bebop then you will like the title character in NieA Under 7.
If you like Tenshi, you will probably like Love Hina and Happy Lesson TV.
If you like Oh My Goddess, you will probably like Chobits.
If you like anime with lots of fighting action then take a look at Beserk, Noir, Scryed, Hellsing.
Other good romantic comedy animes are: Onegai Teacher, I my me Strawberry Eggs, Ai Yori Aoshi, Hanaukyo Maids.
There are many more than this. Most of the ones I mentioned came out in the last year or two.
graspee